With apologies for cross-postings...
Announcing:
GLOBAL HUNTERS & GATHERERS: AFTER REVISIONISM?
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A two-day interdisciplinary meeting on Hunter-Gatherer studies
13-14 May 2000
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
University of Cambridge
Programme
DAY 1 (May 13th)
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Morning
09:30-10:20 Tea/Coffee, registration and visual aids preparation
10:20-10:30 Opening remarks
10:30-10:50 Mark Pluciennik (Dept. of Archaeology, Univ. of Lampeter,
Wales)
On the origins of Hunter-Gatherers in seventeenth-century Europe
10:55-11:15 John Gowlett (Dept. of Archaeology, Univ. Liverpool, England)
Foragers of the third way? How early hominids tug at comparative
frameworks
11:20-11:40 Joseph Miller (Dept. of Anthropology, Southern Methodist
University, Texas)
Pitfalls in learning: methods for studying modern Hunter-Gatherers
11:45-12:05 Martin Porr (Dept. of Archaeology, Univ. of Southampton)
Beyond revisionism: the need for non-reductionist social theory in
Hunter-Gatherer anthropology/archaeology
12:05-13:00 Lunch
Afternoon I
13:00-13:20 Laura Rival (Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Kent, Canterbury)
Hunter-Gatherer ways of knowing, representing and fetishising the
environment
13:25-13:45 Manuel Arroyo-Kalin (Dept. of Archaeology, Univ. of Cambridge,
England)
Foraging, inter-ethnic relations and social hierarchy in neotropical
foragers: are those models too water-tight?
13:50-14:10 Barbara Bodenhorn (Dept. of Social Anthropology, Univ. of
Cambridge, England)
<Title to be announced>
14:15-14:35 Simon Kaner (Archaeology Office, Cambridgeshire County
Council)
Hunter-Gatherer 'civilisation'? A view from the Japanese archipelago
14:35-15:00 Tea/Coffee
Afternoon II
15:00-15:20 Cathryn J. Fewster (Dept. of Archaeology, Univ. of Wales,
Lampeter)
Problems in the ethnoarchaeology of encapsulated Hunter-Gatherers: the
ambiguity of the material signifiers of interaction between Basarwa
(San) Hunter-Gatherers and Bamangwato Agropastoralists, Botswana
15:25-15:45 Edwin Wilmsen (Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Texas, Austin)
<Title to be announced>
15:50-16:10 Thomas Dowson (Dept. of Archaeology, Univ. of Southampton,
England)
Ritual, myth & art: representing the politics of so-called
Hunter-Gatherers
16:15-16:35 Tea/Coffee
Evening
16:35-17:00 Chris Chippindale (Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology,
Univ. of Cambridge)
Is there now a systematics of Hunter-Gatherer art, ethnographically and
ethnohistorically based, sufficiently robust that one can approach
prehistoric art with a good basis for grasping its meaning?
17:00-17:20 Ian Keen (Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian
National University, Australia)
Trajectories of transformation: Australia as a region
17:25-17:45 James L. Phillips (Depat. Of Anthropology, University of
Illinois at Chicago)
Reconstructing Hunter-Gatherer lifeways from the archaeological record: a
case study from the Levantine Upper Paleolithic Period
17:45-18:30 Tea/Coffee and preliminary discussion:
The many ways into Revisionism
DAY 2 (May 14th)
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Morning
09:00-09:20 Tea/Coffee
09:20-09:40 Christopher Tolan-Smith (Department of Archaeology, University
of Newcastle)
'Amity or Enmity?' Inter-group social relations between Hunter-Gatherers
in ethnography and archaeology
09:45-10:05 Alfredo Prieto (Centro de Estudios del Hombre Austral,
Univ. de Magallanes)
Mobility and prey transportation techniques in Tierra del Fuego
10:10-10:30 Preston Miracle (Dept. of Archaeology, Univ. of Cambridge)
<Title to be announced>
10:35-10:55 Lila Janik (Dept. of Archaeology, Univ. of Cambridge)
Human rights, cultural integrity and the interpretation of prehistoric
Fisher-Gatherer-Hunters
11:00-11:20 Robert Layton (Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Durham)
What can anthropology and archaeology learn from the Revisionist debate?
11:25-13:30 Tea/Coffee and Final discussion:
'After Revisionism' or where do we go from here?
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GLOBAL HUNTERS & GATHERERS: AFTER REVISIONISM?
<http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~maa27> or
<http://www-mcdonald.arch.cam.ac.uk/Conferences/GHAG/home.htm>
(to download and print our poster (A4) follow 'Other interesting links')
For inquiries contact the Organisers:
Manuel Arroyo-Kalin ([log in to unmask])
Preston Miracle ([log in to unmask])
Chris Chippindale ([log in to unmask])
The Organisers, Global Hunters & Gatherers: after Revisionism?
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3DZ
England
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